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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other…
— Louis Agassiz
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
— George Perkins Marsh
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He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
— Edward Abbey
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No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests…
— Herbert Hoover
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And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has…
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.
— Bob Mould
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The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
— Todd Solondz
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The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will…
— Anne Perry
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For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of…
— Ingmar Bergman
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